umm, decorating with garbage advice

I have barely one watt per gallon and my tank is six inches deeper than yours- check out my Planted Tank photos.

lots of anubis would be nice..seems to grow easily, with low light

No CO2 or anything, either?

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Nope.
Low light low tech!

Cearbhaill, the tank your talking about is the 90g discuss right?

Can you give Vote and me the details about this tank:
-fluo or CF?
-6700k or else?
-what ferts?
-special substrate?

I'm in the same situation as you and doing way worse, so please help out!

as for the question, i dont think glass and plastic will affect your water.

Cearbhaill said:

I have barely one watt per gallon and my tank is six inches deeper than yours- check out my Planted Tank photos.

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you failed to mention that your 1wpg comes from compact flourescent lighting which makes a difference IMHO.
To expect the same results from regular NO lighting would be very optimistic
(IME)

Personally I think it sounds like a cool, very different, idea for an aquarium!!!

I really can't think of anything that would be harmful to the fish or water quality... um, empty glass bottle should be fine, plastic 6-pack ring fine, I don't know what you mean by earth worm container, but as long as it's plastic, I'm sure that would be fine too...

The only things that I can think of that may affect your water quality would be certain types of rocks - when in doubt pour some vinegar on them, and if it bubbles, chances are it would cause a reaction in your tank.

You could try to find a pair of plastic shoes/boots, maybe an empty milk jug weighed down w/ some gravel? What else do you find in the lakes? What about an old fishing reel, or maybe 1/2 of a fishing rod (without hooks, of course).

What an interesting idea!!! You'll have to post pictures once you get it going!

~Tara

you failed to mention that your 1wpg comes from compact flourescent lighting which makes a difference IMHO.

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Right- sorry.
I truly did not notice a type of bulb in the original post.

Some of this is listed in my "Tank Specs", but here's more-
Tank is 90g, 24" deep
110w compact flourescents 6700ºK
Substrate is Seachem Onyx Sand.
I use Flourish products every other day-ish: Excel, Flourish, Trace, Potassium, and Iron. I have Flourish plant tabs under the swords.
My tap water runs about 7.8 pH but is soft about 3-4dKH. I have a tiny bag of crushed coral in my filter.
I change about 25% every week straight out of a garden hose.
Filter is an Eheim 2028, and the temps stay around 85ºF.

I'll be the first to admit that it is the easiest to care for tank that I have- I think that my usage of Flourish products is the key. I have next to no nuisance algae and it is just a breeze to maintain.

We're going to do an exact replica/upgrade of this tank in a 180 gallon as soon as next years tax return gets here. Buy stock in Flourish products!!

dwayne said:

Personally I think it sounds like a cool, very different, idea for an aquarium!!!You could try to find a pair of plastic shoes/boots, maybe an empty milk jug weighed down w/ some gravel? What else do you find in the lakes? What about an old fishing reel, or maybe 1/2 of a fishing rod (without hooks, of course).

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How about some fishing lures? you can get some really funky looking lures at walmart for a buck or so. But I'd recommend taking of the hooks and barbs! I've weighed down a clump of Java Fern with an old trout lure (5 o diamonds to be exact) and it looks pretty cool IMO GOOD LUCK! The possibilities are endless